Snowball token filter
The snowball token filter is a stemming filter based on the Snowball algorithm. It supports many languages and is more efficient and accurate than the Porter stemming algorithm.
Parameters
The snowball token filter can be configured with a language parameter that accepts the following values:
ArabicArmenianBasqueCatalanDanishDutchEnglish(default)EstonianFinnishFrenchGermanGerman2HungarianItalianIrishKpLithuanianLovinsNorwegianPorterPortugueseRomanianRussianSpanishSwedishTurkish
Example
The following example request creates a new index named my-snowball-index and configures an analyzer with a snowball filter:
PUT /my-snowball-index
{
"settings": {
"analysis": {
"filter": {
"my_snowball_filter": {
"type": "snowball",
"language": "English"
}
},
"analyzer": {
"my_snowball_analyzer": {
"type": "custom",
"tokenizer": "standard",
"filter": [
"lowercase",
"my_snowball_filter"
]
}
}
}
}
}
Generated tokens
Use the following request to examine the tokens generated using the analyzer:
GET /my-snowball-index/_analyze
{
"analyzer": "my_snowball_analyzer",
"text": "running runners"
}
The response contains the generated tokens:
{
"tokens": [
{
"token": "run",
"start_offset": 0,
"end_offset": 7,
"type": "<ALPHANUM>",
"position": 0
},
{
"token": "runner",
"start_offset": 8,
"end_offset": 15,
"type": "<ALPHANUM>",
"position": 1
}
]
}